Los Angeles Zoo
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The Los Angeles Zoo is a large zoo located in Los Angeles, California.
The Zoo is home to 1,200 animal species from around the world. The zoo is located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park.
It has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California Condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 13 in the 1980s to several hundred condors today.
Among the highlights of the public zoo grounds are naturalistic habitats for chimpanzees, orangutans, koalas and for the komodo dragon.
There is currently a major construction project ongoing, with building in place for new hippopotamus, gorilla and elephant exhibits.
Trivia
- The Los Angeles Zoo is the zoo featured in the sixth season opening sequence of the 1977 - 1984 John Ritter sitcom Three's Company.
- The first zoo was about two miles north of its current site until about 1965. Remnants of the zoo [remain] and were used in the film .
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